The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession

by Timothy C. Campbell, Grant Farred, Campbell

Book Overview

A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself

Challenging the contemporary notion of "self-care" and the Western mania for "self-possession," The Comic Self deploys philosophical discourse and literary expression to propose an alternate and less toxic model for human aspiration: a comic self. Timothy Campbell and Grant Farred argue that the problem with the "care of the self," from Foucault onward,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517914922
• ISBN13: 9781517914929
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"